Scientific Advisory Council
A Scientific Advisory Council, consisting of representatives from the worlds of academia and business, actively accompanies and evaluates the ZEW’s work.
- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Buttler, former Secretary of State, Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture Brandenburg; former Regional Director of Europe and Central Asia, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
- Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Arnold Picot, Head of the Institute for Information, Organization, and Management, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
- Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner, Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel, Director, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Michael Heise, Head of Allianz Group Economic Research, Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt a.M.
- Prof. Dr. Johanna Hey, Institute of Tax Law, University of Cologne
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Hundt, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Gebhard Kirchgässner, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University of St. Gallen
- Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
- Prof. Pierre A. Mohnen, PhD, UNU-MERIT, University of Maastricht
- Prof. Dr. Hannes Rehm,, President, IHK Hannover
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Remsperger, former Member of Board, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M.
- Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Bertram Schefold, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Schips, former Head of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETU Zurich
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Prof. Dr. Heinz Welsch, Institute for Economics and Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
- Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Wittenstein, Chairman of the Board, Wittenstein AG, Igersheim
- Prof. Dr. Christine Zulehner, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria